03 Jan 2015 Comments Off on W-3: I do not understand anything I see.
W-3: I do not understand anything I see.
Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)
Lesson 3 states, “The point of the exercises is to help you clear your mind of all past associations, to see things exactly as they appear to you now, and to realize how little you really understand about them.”
We are asked to keep an open mind and suspend judgment. In the world, if I keep an open mind and suspend all judgment, couldn’t I get into trouble? But when Jesus firmly suggests that I follow his instructions and have my own experience, how can I refuse? I gaze around the room and find that my mind softens … I, who love precision, have no desire to even assign words to what I’m seeing … there is a blur of familiar objects devoid of names or relevance.
My heart eases in my chest as some internal pressure I live with daily abates. Something widens expansively, moving through the heart, the lungs, the arms, and radiates beyond the body. Here is the love, peace and joy the Course promises.
LESSON 3
I do not understand anything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place].
Apply this idea in the same way as the previous ones, without making distinctions of any kind. Whatever you see becomes a proper subject for applying the idea. Be sure that you do not question the suitability of anything for application of the idea. These are not exercises in judgment. Anything is suitable if you see it. Some of the things you see may have emotionally charged meaning for you. Try to lay such feelings aside, and merely use these things exactly as you would anything else.
The point of these exercises is to help you clear your mind of all past associations, to see things exactly as they appear to you now, and to realize how little you really understand about them. It is therefore essential that you keep a perfectly open mind, unhampered by judgment, in selecting the things to which the idea for the day is to be applied. For this purpose one thing is like another; equally suitable and therefore equally useful.
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To ask Amy a question, email miracles@amytorresacim.com
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